The Bandini Quartet

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782116004

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The Bandini Quartet by John Fante Pdf

Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy. This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and Church that Bandini struggles under but though the physical escape is complete, the psychological imprint continues as he comes to terms with love, desire and the knowledge his talent may not be recognised.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781841954974

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The Bandini Quartet by John Fante Pdf

One of the great outsider figures of twentieth-century literature, John Fante possessed a style of deceptive simplicity, full of emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point. Among the novels, short stories and screenplays that comprised his career, Fante's crowning accomplishments were, for many, his four stories about a certain uncomplicated character from the hills of Abruzzi. Collected together in one volume for the first time, The Bandini Quartet tells of Arturo Bandini, Fante's fictional alter ego, an impoverished young Italian-American who, armed with only a Jesuit high school education and the insane desire to write novels, escapes his suffocating home in Colorado to seek glory in a Depression-era Los Angeles. This edition also includes the first-ever UK publication of Dreams From Bunker Hill, the brilliant and final novel which a blind and wheelchair-bound Fante, nearing his death bed, dictated to his wife Joyce.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013002

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Ask the Dust by John Fante Pdf

Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013170

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Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante Pdf

He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had patched the holes on the inside with pieces of cardboard from a macaroni box. The macaroni in that box was not paid for. He had thought of that as he placed the cardboard inside his shoes.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Rebel Incorporated Classics
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bandini, Arturo (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1841950491

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The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante Pdf

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013064

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Dreams from Bunker Hill by John Fante Pdf

My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934. The place was Third and Hill, Los Angeles. I was twenty-one years old, living in a world bounded on the west by Bunker Hill, on the east by Los Angeles Street, on the south by Pershing Square, and on the north by Civic Center. I was a busboy nonpareil, with great verve and style for the profession, and though I was dreadfully underpaid (one dollar a day plus meals) I attracted considerable attention as I whirled from table to table, balancing a tray on one hand, and eliciting smiles from my customers. I had something else beside a waiter's skill to offer my patrons, for I was also a writer.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062012999

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1933 Was A Bad Year by John Fante Pdf

Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, under pressure from his father to go into the family business, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfill his own dreams.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013033

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The Brotherhood of the Grape by John Fante Pdf

Henry Molise, a 50 year old, successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his aging parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical, brick laying father, Nick, though weak and alcoholic, can still strike fear into the hearts of his sons. His mother, though ill and devout to her Catholicism, still has the power to comfort and confuse her children. This is typical of Fante's novels, it's autobiographical, and brimming with love, death, violence and religion. Writing with great passion Fante powerfully hits home the damage family can wreck upon us all.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013187

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West of Rome by John Fante Pdf

West of Rome's two novellas, "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy," fulfill the promise of their rousing titles. The latter novella opens with virtuoso description: "His name was Frank Gagliano, and he did not believe in God. He was that most singular and startling craftsman of the building trade-a left-handed bricklayer. Like my father, Frank came from Torcella Peligna, a cliff-hugging town in the Abruzzi. Lean as a spider, he wore a leather cap and puttees the year around, and he was so bowlegged a dog could lope between his knees without touching them."

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013217

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The Wine of Youth by John Fante Pdf

This new edition of the legendary Dago Red, first published in 1940, contains seven new stories, including "A Nun No More" and "My Father’s God."

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061877452

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South of No North by Charles Bukowski Pdf

South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society.

Author : Stephen Cooper,Clorinda Donato
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823287888

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John Fante's Ask the Dust by Stephen Cooper,Clorinda Donato Pdf

This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact. The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others—analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fante’s masterpiece that distinguish it from those accounts of earlier East Coast migrations and minglings. A must-read for aficionados of L.A. fiction and new migration literature, John Fante’s “Ask the Dust”: A Joining of Voices and Views is destined for landmark status as the first volume of Fante studies to reveal the novel’s evolving intertextualities and intersectionalities. Contributors: Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Cooper, Giovanna DiLello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Philippe Garnier, Robert Guffey, Ryan Holiday, Jan Louter, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Meagan Meylor, J’aime Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Danny Shain, Robert Towne, Joel Williams

Author : Adelle Stripe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350135949

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Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe Pdf

Writing is the hardest thing I've done. It's a grind. You see me up here and you think I've made it. But it's not all it's cracked up to be. The Beacon, Buttershaw 1990. Andrea Dunbar, acclaimed writer of Rita, Sue, and Bob Too, mum, sister, best friend, is struggling with her latest work. Her aching head is full of voices, stories from her past which have to be heard... A bittersweet tale of the north/south divide, it reveals how a shy teenage girl defied the circumstances into which she was born and went on to become one of her generation's greatest dramatists. Adelle Stripe's 'outstanding debut novel' of Andrea Dunbar's life is adapted for the stage by Lisa Holdsworth. This edition was published to coincide with the stage premiere at the Ambassador Theatre, Bradford in May 2019.

Author : Gautam Chintamani
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789351363408

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Dark Star by Gautam Chintamani Pdf

FOREWORD BY SHARMILA TAGORE The first-ever biography of the enigmatic Rajesh Khanna, the original 'superstar' If ever a life was meant to be a book, few could stake a stronger claim. Like a shooting star doomed to darkness after a glorious run, Rajesh Khanna spent the better half of his career in the shadow of his own stardom. Yet, forty years after his last monstrous hit, Khanna continues to be the yardstick by which every single Bollywood star is measured. At a time when film stars were truly larger than life, Khanna was even more: the one for whom the term 'superstar' was coined. Born Jatin Khanna to middle-class parents, the actor was adopted by rich relatives who brought him up like a prince. By the time he won the Filmfare-United Producers Combine Talent Hunt, he was already famous for being the struggler who drove an imported sports car.With seventeen blockbuster hits in succession and mass adulation rarely seen before or since, the world was at Khanna's feet. Everything he touched turned to gold. The hysteria he generated - women writing him letters in blood, marrying his photograph and donning white when he married Dimple Kapadia, people bringing sick children for his 'healing' touch after Haathi Mere Saathi - was unparalleled. Then, in a matter of months, it all changed. Khanna's career hit a downward spiral as spectacular as his meteoric rise just three years after Aradhana (1969) and never really recovered. Dark Star looks at the phenomenon of an actor who redefined the 'film star'. Gautam Chintamani's engaging narrative tries to make sense of what it was that made Rajesh Khanna and what accounted for his extraordinary fall. A singular account of a wondrous life.

Author : Thom Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317410225

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Electronic and Experimental Music by Thom Holmes Pdf

Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture provides a comprehensive history of electronic music, covering key composers, genres, and techniques used in analog and digital synthesis. This textbook has been extensively revised with the needs of students and instructors in mind. The reader-friendly style, logical organization, and pedagogical features of the fifth edition allow easy access to key ideas, milestones, and concepts. New to this edition: • A companion website, featuring key examples of electronic music, both historical and contemporary. • Listening Guides providing a moment-by-moment annotated exploration of key works of electronic music. • A new chapter—Contemporary Practices in Composing Electronic Music. • Updated presentation of classic electronic music in the United Kingdom, Italy, Latin America, and Asia, covering the history of electronic music globally. • An expanded discussion of early experiments with jazz and electronic music, and the roots of electronic rock. • Additional accounts of the vastly under-reported contributions of women composers in the field. • More photos, scores, and illustrations throughout. The companion website features a number of student and instructor resources, such as additional Listening Guides, links to streaming audio examples and online video resources, PowerPoint slides, and interactive quizzes.